Russia’s security services: A checklist for reforms

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by J Michael Waller, Perspective (Boston University, Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy), Vol. VII, No. 1, September-October 1997. Protection of human rights, according to Russian law, is the first duty of the security and intelligence services of the post-Soviet state. Even more, the “special services” or “organs,” as they are called, … Read more

The politics of chemical weapons

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by J Michael Waller, Washington Times, March 4, 1997. Download PDF here: Politics of CW WT 1997.03.04 Someone is sabotaging the Chemical Weapons Convention. If the international treaty, intended to ban all chemical weapons from the planet, goes into effect as scheduled April 29 – without the ratification of the Russian parliament and the United States … Read more

The chemical weapons coverup

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by J. Michael Waller, Wall Street Journal, February 13, 1997 (click here for PDF WSJ: Chem Weapons Coverup 1997.02.13) President Clinton had hardly completed his first year in office when Sen. William Cohen (R., Maine) suspected that the administration was covering up ominous Russian military developments. Mr. Cohen introduced legislation requiring the president “to tell us … Read more

Primakov’s imperial line

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By J Michael Waller, Perspective (Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy), January-February 1997. Russian foreign policy has become more consistent and predictable since Yevgeni Primakov succeeded Andrei Kozyrev as foreign minister in January 1996. Moscow’s diplomacy today shows a tendency toward greater integration between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the … Read more

‘Delay, postpone, obfuscate, derail’ – A case study of US aid to former USSR

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By J Michael Waller / Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization (American University and Moscow State University), Winter 1997. With rebuttals from the US Department of State and Department of Defense PDF originals: (1) Demok 97a Waller Delay; (2) Demok 97b State Dept; (3) Demok 97c Waller State; (4) Demok 97d DoD; (5) Demok 97e Waller DoD Introduction Many supporters of U.S. assistance … Read more

Supreme Soviet investigation of the 1991 coup: The suppressed transcripts

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In 1995-96 we published the only translated transcripts of the Russian parliamentary investigation hearings on the 1991 putsch. To our knowledge, the transcripts were never published in Russia. Dr Waller edited a selection of the transcripts for Demokratizatsiya. The journal, then published in cooperation with the American University and Moscow State University, is now housed … Read more

To Russia, with cash

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by J Michael Waller, Reader’s Digest, June 1996 Nearly five years after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the unthinkable is occurring: The Community Party once again dominates the Russian parliament. Free-market reformers in Boris Yeltsin’s government have been purged, and Yeltsin has distances himself from the West. Yevgeny Primakov, a former chief of foreign intelligence … Read more

Out with the old nukes, in with the new

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by J Michael Waller, Washington Times, June 10, 1996 Abstract: US policy toward Russia is to fund the dismantlement of Moscow’s antiquated nuclear arsenal, and facilitate its replacement with a next-generation, modernized strategic weapons force. Download PDF: Out-w-Old-Nukes-WT-1996.06.10